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Producer (Digital)

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£39,000 - 42,000
Closing date
22 Sep 2020

Job Details

Producer (Digital)

£39,000 - 42,000

London, and currently remote

The Producer (Digital) will assist the Ent. & Talent and Factual teams in ideating and delivering supporting digital comedy/ent. content for CR, both in campaign and within 365 activity. They will act as an ideas generator with strong editorial sensibilities, helping implement CR’s strategy of producing long- and shortform multiplatform content that is both funny and credible and delivers a ROI in terms of funds raised. Internally, they will work cross-org with the CD, HODs & Managers, reporting to the Head of Ent. & Talent with a dotted line report to the Digital Content Lead. Externally, they will liaise with BBC commissioners, BBCS production teams and external production companies and creatives as needed.                                                                 

Key responsibilities

  • To add value to our TV and digital content offering and income generation strategy, building on previous successes monetizing content.
  • To liaise closely between the NOTV production team, our Entertainment content team and our digital teams in campaign, to strategise and deliver digital-first comedy/ent. content.
  • To work with our Digital Marketing team to amplify all content and maximise engagement and income on multiple platforms.
  • To work with the Factual team to develop & deliver digital promo films as required for external partners and/or community fundraising teams.
  • To maintain good working relationships with external creative partners, generating content for CR.

Essential skills & competencies

  • TV and digital development experience in comedy entertainment, fact. ent and/or popular factual genres.
  • Successful track record in monetizing digital content.
  • Deep knowledge of archive clearances & royalty exploitation mechanisms.
  • Preditor experience preferable but not essential.
  • Experience pitching to senior managers plus a strong grasp of editorial.
  • Exceptional communication, networking and influencing skills.
  • Strategic thinking and swift effective decision-making.
  • Recognition and appropriate implementation of safeguarding practices.

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 22nd Sep 2020 BST (Europe/London)

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

  • Be valued for being yourself
  • Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
  • Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
  • Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm

Company

Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.

And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.

As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:

"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.

Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.

It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"

AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:

Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.

On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.

Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.

Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.

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